I've just bought some poverty Pork…
Discussion
I've had mine just over a year & have spent around £1.7k on it (some may have waited but I'm a bit anal about my cars bring right)
Included in that figure is
Full set new radiators including air con
New brake discs & pads all round
New rear tyres
Full major service & check over
New stereo for iPhone.
Replace heater display (LCD fault)
I bought it for £5k (haggled down from £6.5k!) for a fsh 2001 Boxster S with 82k so less than £7k & it is now perfect.
It already had a new roof with glass heated window, replacement clutch & unmarked Lapis Blue paintwork.
Included in that figure is
Full set new radiators including air con
New brake discs & pads all round
New rear tyres
Full major service & check over
New stereo for iPhone.
Replace heater display (LCD fault)
I bought it for £5k (haggled down from £6.5k!) for a fsh 2001 Boxster S with 82k so less than £7k & it is now perfect.
It already had a new roof with glass heated window, replacement clutch & unmarked Lapis Blue paintwork.
That's the trouble - your experience has ticked all the boxes for me (I'm easliy persauded!)and illustrates my thoughts.
Budget for £7k - spend £5k with the £2k budget in the bank to make it good - then run it and fix it as it goes wrong/needs fixing.
I would hope that after your fixes it shouldn't need too much else for a while - or is that my naive gene kicking in!
Budget for £7k - spend £5k with the £2k budget in the bank to make it good - then run it and fix it as it goes wrong/needs fixing.
I would hope that after your fixes it shouldn't need too much else for a while - or is that my naive gene kicking in!
kippax said:
I've had mine just over a year & have spent around £1.7k on it (some may have waited but I'm a bit anal about my cars bring right)
Included in that figure is
Full set new radiators including air con
New brake discs & pads all round
New rear tyres
Full major service & check over
New stereo for iPhone.
Replace heater display (LCD fault)
I bought it for £5k (haggled down from £6.5k!) for a fsh 2001 Boxster S with 82k so less than £7k & it is now perfect.
It already had a new roof with glass heated window, replacement clutch & unmarked Lapis Blue paintwork.
Included in that figure is
Full set new radiators including air con
New brake discs & pads all round
New rear tyres
Full major service & check over
New stereo for iPhone.
Replace heater display (LCD fault)
I bought it for £5k (haggled down from £6.5k!) for a fsh 2001 Boxster S with 82k so less than £7k & it is now perfect.
It already had a new roof with glass heated window, replacement clutch & unmarked Lapis Blue paintwork.
Good to know as that's pretty much my exact plan. Spend appx 5k with a 1.5k immediate fighting fund to bring up to spec.
Julesx said:
That's the trouble - your experience has ticked all the boxes for me (I'm easliy persauded!)and illustrates my thoughts.
Budget for £7k - spend £5k with the £2k budget in the bank to make it good - then run it and fix it as it goes wrong/needs fixing.
I would hope that after your fixes it shouldn't need too much else for a while - or is that my naive gene kicking in!
I hope so too Budget for £7k - spend £5k with the £2k budget in the bank to make it good - then run it and fix it as it goes wrong/needs fixing.
I would hope that after your fixes it shouldn't need too much else for a while - or is that my naive gene kicking in!
kippax said:
I've had mine just over a year & have spent around £1.7k on it (some may have waited but I'm a bit anal about my cars bring right)
Included in that figure is
Full set new radiators including air con
New brake discs & pads all round
New rear tyres
Full major service & check over
New stereo for iPhone.
Replace heater display (LCD fault)
Did you have all that work done by a Porsche specialist? Where in the countryare you? Included in that figure is
Full set new radiators including air con
New brake discs & pads all round
New rear tyres
Full major service & check over
New stereo for iPhone.
Replace heater display (LCD fault)
Seems relatively 'good value' as I'd have expected that just a full set of discs/pads is £1k fitted, two rear tyres another £300, major service £400 and that still leaves out the 4x rads, stereo and display.
RiccardoG said:
Did you have all that work done by a Porsche specialist? Where in the countryare you?
Seems relatively 'good value' as I'd have expected that just a full set of discs/pads is £1k fitted, two rear tyres another £300, major service £400 and that still leaves out the 4x rads, stereo and display.
All work except tyres carried out by local indie Unit 11 Porsche Warrington. Seems relatively 'good value' as I'd have expected that just a full set of discs/pads is £1k fitted, two rear tyres another £300, major service £400 and that still leaves out the 4x rads, stereo and display.
I supplied my own air con rads (off eBay) & had tyres done elsewhere.
Having just had a gander at the price of Caymans I wonder how long it takes before they will be in this thread 
I really need to remove this from my list though as it is not helping. Went halves with brother on a second 968CS at Christmas and we keep threatening to buy the other out the nicer it turns out to be with each report from his man! If I let him have it it will be hard not to put the money back into pork.
I really need to remove this from my list though as it is not helping. Went halves with brother on a second 968CS at Christmas and we keep threatening to buy the other out the nicer it turns out to be with each report from his man! If I let him have it it will be hard not to put the money back into pork.
anonymous said:
[redacted]
Hmm, would start another thread but would be lunched by the current owners 
Looking at PH ads only there about 7+ cars on there which would come for less than £15k without any or much arm twisting. None of them have done 6 figure miles. I suspect that the traders might well know of the odd lime green with savannah basic spec. 2.7 with a lot of miles changing hands for closer to £10k.
Dipping in and out of this thread would suggest that £7k-£7.5k for a good 986 3.2s is considered and I can easily see Caymans in that ball park when they are of the same age.
I think that the 'purist' angle will make little or no difference. Most not on this site would chose a £15k Boxster over an identical £15k Cayman almost every day.
I remember buying my Boxster for about £14k (Trade price in Feb '06) and thinking that it'd be worth £10k all day long. I think that I got about £3.5k when I traded it in January 2011...
:goes off to check out the price of 987's:
ETA Chuff me they are cheap! Please forgive me if I try to avoid this thread for a bit, it might not be good for much bank balance and even the g/f and i would have trouble justifying 4 1/2 2 seaters and an old Golf between the pair of us
!
ETA Chuff me they are cheap! Please forgive me if I try to avoid this thread for a bit, it might not be good for much bank balance and even the g/f and i would have trouble justifying 4 1/2 2 seaters and an old Golf between the pair of us
!Edited by Rude-boy on Thursday 21st February 14:11
Rude-boy said:
Dipping in and out of this thread would suggest that £7k-£7.5k for a good 986 3.2s is considered and I can easily see Caymans in that ball park when they are of the same age.
6.5k will get you a good 3.2s with lots of age related things taken care of. Mine will be up in the classifieds later this week. yajeed said:
6.5k will get you a good 3.2s with lots of age related things taken care of. Mine will be up in the classifieds later this week.
Oh F.And you are in Cambs. so i can't even say it's mega miles away.
No promises I'll act on it but you may wish to PM me a link to the ad once it is live.
Rude-boy said:
Oh F.
And you are in Cambs. so i can't even say it's mega miles away.
No promises I'll act on it but you may wish to PM me a link to the ad once it is live.
Not in Cambs but you can have mine now for less than 6500! http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...And you are in Cambs. so i can't even say it's mega miles away.
No promises I'll act on it but you may wish to PM me a link to the ad once it is live.
robbieduncan said:
Not in Cambs but you can have mine now for less than 6500! http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...
That looks lovelyGassing Station | Porsche General | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff